Spring cleaning in summer
July 3rd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Technology creates tremendous opportunities to improve people’s lives. But to make the most of them, we need to focus—or we end up doing too much and not having the impact we strive for. So last fall we started a spring clean, and since then we’…
A new future: hitting “Refresh” on business technology
July 3rd, 2012 | by Julia | published in Google App Engine, Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Amit Singh, Vice President, Google EnterpriseOver the last two months I had the opportunity to spend time with hundreds of CIOs as we took Atmosphere – our annual cloud event – to 20 cities globally. What I heard from them boiled down to …
Supporting the digital economy in Mauritius
July 3rd, 2012 | by Emily Wood | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Winter Casey, Senior Policy AnalystThanks to the Internet, trade has never been easier. The ability to trade goods and services online has helped companies large and small to reach a global marketplace. And the web has also enabled another im…
Block ads on your site with the updated Google Publisher Toolbar
July 3rd, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
In January, we launched the AdSense Publisher Toolbar to help you save time and monitor account performance directly from your pages. If you’re one of the over 31,000 publishers who have already installed this handy Chrome extension, you’ve probabl…
Diary of a Summer Intern – Pablo
July 3rd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Hola a todos!Wow! It has been only 5 weeks since my internship started and Google already feels like home (and that’s not easy considering that my hometown is 6,000 miles away!).I moved with my wife and son (see picture here – he is the cute one!) to…
Gmail log search feature enhances visibility for domain admins
July 3rd, 2012 | by Julia | published in Google Apps, Google Enterprise
Posted by Priya Mathew, Google Apps Senior StrategistGoogle Apps domain admins have access to a new tool – Gmail log search – that increases visibility into their email traffic. This feature in the Apps control panel allows domain admins to search …
Go indoors at locations across the United Kingdom
July 3rd, 2012 | by Lat Long Blog | published in Google Earth, Google Maps
Given the current British weather, we seem to be spending a lot more of the summer than we’d hoped indoors. The thing about being indoors is that people often get lost – I’m not talking about in your own home, of course, but when you’re out and a…
Find the perfect app with a little help from your Google+ friends
July 3rd, 2012 | by Google Chrome Blog | published in Google Chrome
Since I started working on the Chrome Web Store, all my friends have been asking me which apps to try out. Between checking with colleagues for their suggestions and creating shared lists on Google spreadsheets, I thought there must be an easier way to…
GoogleServe 2012: More skills-based service
July 2nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This year we celebrated our fifth GoogleServe Global Week of Service—an annual tradition in which Googlers around the world join together in community service projects. Volunteering together helps to revitalize and strengthen our connections with the…
Our unique approach to research
July 2nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Google started as a research project—and research has remained a core part of our culture. But we also do research differently than many other places. To shed more light on Google’s unique approach to research, Peter Norvig (Director of Research),…
Our Unique Approach to Research
July 2nd, 2012 | by Josie John | published in Google Research
Posted by Alfred Spector, Vice President of Research and Special InitiativesGoogle started as a research project—and research has remained a core part of our culture. But we also do research differently than many other places. To shed more ligh…
Celebrating the first Student Ambassador Summit for Sub-Saharan Africa
July 2nd, 2012 | by Google Students | published in Google Student Blog
Cross-posted from the Google Africa BlogEarlier this month we hosted 148 of the 170 university students selected as 2012-2013 Google Student Ambassadors in Nairobi, Kenya for the first-ever SSA Ambassador Summit. These students – most of whom were trav…
Breaking Borders for Free Expression
July 2nd, 2012 | by Google Public Policy Blog | published in Google Public Policy
Posted by Bob Boorstin, Director, Global Policy Today in Nairobi, at the biannual Global Voices Citizen Media summit, Google and the group Global Voices announced the winners of the 2nd Breaking Borders Award. The award honors people who, in the v…
More control with “mute this ad” [x] icon
July 2nd, 2012 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
We’re investing in many ways to give users control over the ads they see. On YouTube, our TrueView ad product enables users to skip video ads. On Google search, you can click “Why this Ad?” and stop sites you’re not interested in from showing y…
The web is working for American businesses
July 2nd, 2012 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
The web is where we go to find things—that somewhere special to eat tonight, the directions to guide us there and suggestions for that one-of-a-kind present for the birthday girl. Ninety-seven percent of Americans are looking online for local goods a…